Monday, July 23, 2012

Sew Merry and Bright Book Review and Giveaway

I met Linda at Quilt Market a few months ago and liked her right away. She's down-to-earth, funny, and tells it like it is. And her designs are just as bold and bright as she is—check out her blog to see more. So I was excited to get my hands on her new holiday-themed book. It's one-stop-shopping for all the Christmas patterns you could possibly need!

This book has patterns for a tree skirt, a table runner, a pillow case, placemats, two different stockings, advent calendars, a quilt ... you name it, it's in there! And she has some ridiculously adorable wool-felt ornaments. In fact, there are fivedifferent ornament designs to make, on top of all the other projects.

I whipped up this sweet little squirrel ornament with some textured wool felt. Linda glams up her ornaments in the book with sparkly beads on the ornament hangers, but as you can see, this little guy works just as well with a simpler look. (I used decorative red-and-white butcher's twine for my ornament hanger and a single shiny black bead for his eensy eye.)

And I will definitely be making Linda's matryoshka ornament before the Christmas tree goes up. How freaking cute are they? They even come apart and can work as individual matryoshkas. My kids will be all over that!

Would you like to win a signed copy of Sew Merry and Bright? Just leave a comment here. And don't forget, my Christmas fabric bundle giveaway is still open as well—click here to enter that one, too! Can't have a Christmas book without some Christmas fabric, right? I'll draw winners for both giveaways Tuesday afternoon. (THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.)

This looks like a really fun book. Your squirrel ornament is so adorable. I always give my kids an ornament every year for christmas so when they move out they have a set of ornaments. I would love to make that little squirrel for my daughter.

I definitely need this book! I'm a definite for the squirrel too, but I also need a good tree skirt pattern - the book has already paid for itself! Thanks for the Amazon link! (You know, just in case, by some weird happening, I don't win!) :0

Linda's book looks like lots of fun- thanks for the chance to win a copy. It is fun seeing what different people are creating from it.Thanks for participating in the blog hop.Regards from Western Canada,Anna

The squirrel is just cute, it would be lovely to have a whole family of them. Thank you for offering the giveaway, I would love to get cracking on christmas sewing with this book.ks(dot)eyles(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk

I would love a pattern for a tree skirt. I have been married for five years and we have just been using one I got at the dollar store because I keep saying I am going to make one but haven't found the right pattern. eatkin85@yahoo.com

This book is adorable I jumed over to amazon to get a look at it, I didn't want to take a chance to win from some one but this is definitly a winner and a keeper. Thank-you for the chance to win not only the book but a signed copy. Becky

I HAVE to make the matryoshka dolls ornament! It's adorable and I collect these nesting dolls. I want to make the cute little squirrel ornament too. I would love to have this book. There are so many things to do!

This new Christmas book looks like what I need to ask Santa to bring me, if I don't win it first! Bright, and original, brimming with Christmas ideas. Thanks so much for the opportunity.Nettienettiecrain@live.com

what a great give a way. My husbands side of the family gets together for Christmas the weekend before and every year one person (usually the women) make ornaments for everyone. I love the squirll and can see making 30 of them.quilting dash lady at comcast dot net

My husband loves Christmas and gets really excited about Christmas decorations. I really really want to make him a Christmas quilt or at least some nice decorations this year -- I would love to have a good Christmas book to work from!

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